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Meaning
The speaker is saying that instead of making secret societies feel ordinary or fully explained, she wanted to make them feel even more mysterious. The quote contrasts two approaches to writing about hidden groups: reducing the mystery versus increasing it. It suggests a deliberate choice to preserve wonder and intrigue.
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About Leigh Bardugo
American fantasy author
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, including the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. She is also the author of Ninth House, her acclaimed adult debut. Her work has reached beyond the page through screen adaptations of Shadow and Bone by Netflix and Ninth House by Amazon Studios. Bardugo serves as an executive producer on both projects, and her fiction is known for building expansive fantasy worlds across young adult and adult genres.
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Books by Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows
2015
Shadow and Bone
2020
Ruin and Rising
2014
Siege and Storm
2001
Crooked Kingdom
2016